O caminho do Bodhisattva em Alagoas: um estudo etnográfico

Abstract

Buddhism is a religious and philosophical complex that emerged in India around 2,400 years ago and has spread around the world and adapted to the diverse cultural contexts of each locality, allowing diverse experiences to the people who practice it. The proposal of this research was to make an ethnographic study of the history of Tibetan Buddhism in Alagoas from 2000, presenting the practice centers, teachers, adepts, practitioners. Trying to understand how the Alagoas traveled in the ways of the Bodhisattva, which is that of Buddha from its beginning to the present day, has been given and is given. The Way of the Bodhisattva is the path traveled by the being who seeks enlightenment and trains in order to benefit other beings to eliminate suffering. Methodologies used to carry out this study were uses of the ethnographic method, life history and photoetnography. The Path of the Bodhisattva does not conclude, it shows that the course developed by me and the participants of the Buddhist Sangha in Alagoas has many twists and is always changing, reworking, adapting to every possibility that manifests itself.